Twizell (Northam), Northumberland

Historical Description

Twizell, a small village and a township in Duddo ecclesiastical parish, Norham parish, Northumberland, with a station on the Kelso branch of the N.E.R., at the mouth of the river Till, 3 miles NNE of Cornhill, and 1 from Duddo. Acreage, 2214 of land and 59 of water; population, 215. Post town, Cornhill (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph, office, Norham. Twizell Bridge, over the Till, figures graphically in Sir Walter Scott's " Marmion," in his description of the advance of the English army to Flodden.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Twizell (Northam) from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Twizell)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers related to Northumberland online:

• Morpeth Herald
• Berwickshire News and General Advertiser
• The Berwick Advertiser
• Alnwick Mercury
• Illustrated Berwick Journal